Scientists Look to Use Bee’s Brains to Control Flying Robots

By

Nick Clayton

Oct 4, 2012 6:30 am GMT

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Scientists hope to model bee brains to power autonomous flying robots

It sounds the stuff of b-movie science fiction, autonomous flying robots with the brains of bees. But there are immediate practical application for the research being carried out at the U.K. universities of Sheffield and Sussex.

Computerworld reports that the development of an artificial brain is what scientists say is one of the greatest challenges in artificial intelligence. Generally, however, the studies have been of rats, monkeys and humans, but social insects have advanced cognitive capabilities too.